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Otara Street

29 reports at 19 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 29 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports19 addresses29 days reported onfrom the air, then11 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1901st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Otara Street, 3 reports46 Otara Street, 3 reports19 Otara Street, 3 reports9A Otara Street, 2 reports9 Otara Street, 2 reports26B Otara Street, 2 reports17 Otara Street, 2 reports8 Otara Street, 1 report7A Otara Street, 1 report7 Otara Street, 1 report6-8 Otara Street, 1 report6 Otara Street, 1 report38 Otara Street, 1 report31 Otara Street, 1 report29 Otara Street, 1 report26 Otara Street, 1 report25 Otara Street, 1 report22 Otara Street, 1 report14 Otara Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Otara Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Ilam.

From the air, then

Otara Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Otara Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Otara Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 11 on the shelf; the 9 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Otara Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Wairarapa Stream stream · 91 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Otara Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPothole, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoNoise - Construction, a report photo more photographs
on the Ilam wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Otara Street?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Otara Street?

29 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (9), roads & footpaths (8), trees & parks (5).

When was Otara Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 29 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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